i receive countless emails asking me about my gear. what camera do you use? what lenses should i buy? (please don’t be offended if I don’t have time to respond to your query)
i’m a Nikon user. but honestly, whether Nikon or Canon or Sony or whatever, brand is not the most vital aspect of photography. i could list the lenses and the camera bodies behind the images in the scruffy dog portfolio, but why? they’re only tools. owning such equipment does not make someone a photographer. trust me, i’ve met my share of self-proclaimed “photographers” with thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
as far as i’m concerned, it’s the artist’s eye that makes a photographer … the ability to see and work the light, to envision an image and capture it, and then to ‘develop’ it further in the digital darkroom, to have a command over the software so that the image can be everything you envisioned in that originating moment. the cameras and lenses are simply tools which enable you - the artist - to reach that end.
still, rest assured that i use the best of the best for your images … professional cameras and the highest end glass.
